2AM, uploading these sketches. Not sure if I can stay up to write anything that will make sense, so I’ll post an update tomorrow.
Update:
Part of the exercise above was for me to come up with a scheme that I could question the role of modern urban dwelling. In the first process, it seems that I was too fixated with the central linear axis that is present throughout the semester. Process 2 begins to break out from that central corridor with dwelling units on both side. The thought behind this borrows the idea of Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon” prison tower where one would be able to look into each individual units from a single focal point. Process 3 explores the same concept on a higher ground.
Not fully satisfied with the result from Process 2 and 3, the top piece here was more of a hybrid between the 3 process above. The linearity of an above grade park is strategically weaved into the dwelling units - creating a single complex. The idea here was also to have the park extend down to the south of the Greenway, with retail spaces lined up below. As shown above, tenants enter the units from the “back” and the integration of the park and the dwelling unit is important because not only is it a public area but it is also part of a urban “back yard” for the units, which is really the front of the units. The next step which I’m currently working on is the different schemes for the apartment types. As of this moment, there are 2 different unit types - all duplex apartments, but a section of the strip will have 3 floors, where the middle section are both shared by the top and bottom units - similar to the Unité d’Habitation by Le Corbusier in Marseille. Playing in part with the Voyeuristic Living post and with the thesis, the focus here was to create and question the intimacy between the people living in the boxes and the public/commuter looking in as they journeyed by.